On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When describing commits, we try to anchor them to tags or refs, as these > are conceptually on a higher level than the commit. And if there is no ref > or tag that matches exactly, we're out of luck. So we employ a heuristic > to make up a name for the commit. These names are ambivalent, there might I guess you meant s/ambivalent/ambiguous/ ? > be different tags or refs to anchor to, and there might be different > path in the DAG to travel to arrive at the commit precisely. > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> Blank line before sign-off. > --- > diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c > @@ -445,11 +495,16 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one) > > if (get_oid(arg, &oid)) > die(_("Not a valid object name %s"), arg); > - cmit = lookup_commit_reference(&oid); > - if (!cmit) > - die(_("%s is not a valid '%s' object"), arg, commit_type); > + cmit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(&oid, 1); > > - describe_commit(&oid, &sb); > + if (cmit) { > + describe_commit(&oid, &sb); > + } else { > + if (lookup_blob(&oid)) > + describe_blob(oid, &sb); > + else > + die(_("%s is neither a commit nor blob"), arg); > + } Not at all worth a re-roll, but less nesting and a bit less noisy: if (cmt) describe_commit(...); else if (lookup_blob(...)) describe_blob(...); else die(...);
